Vehicle-hub



(No Model.)

A. HOUGH.

VEHICLE HUB.

No. 468,494.. Patented Feb. 9, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ALEXANDER HOUGH, OF DOVER, NEW JERSEY.

VEHICLE-HUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,494, dated February 9, 1892.

Application filed July 1, 1891- Serial No. 398,200. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER HOUGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dover, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Hub, of which the following is a specification.

-My invention relates to improvements in vehicle-hubs constructed of inetal;'and the objects of my improvement are, first, strength and durability in a vehicle-hub; second, the better to secure spokes therein and to provide access thereto for that purpose, and, third, a neat and light method of construction. I attain these objects by the mechanism illus trated in the accompanying drawings and herein described, reference being had to the drawings by letters in the description hereof.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of hub, comprising nave A, sleeve or box 3, flangeplate I), screw-collar g, journal-box d, and

' sand-bands e and f. Fig. 2 is atransverse section of nave A and plan of securing spokes therein. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of nave A and flan ge-plate b disconnected. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of flange-plate b, with key-seats 716, for the uses shown hereinafter.

The spoke -holder is constructed in two parts, the nave A and the flange-plate b, the nave A containing ports in its outer circumference, the inner part being an open chamber. The nave A is provided with an annular projection c, cone-shaped within, and which rests on sleeve .9, a section of which is correspondingly cone-shaped, thereby giving a true and firm bearing and support to nave A. On the reverse or face side the nave A is formed with an open circular space within the rim n, (best shown in Figs. 2 and 3,) the inner edge of rim n being screw-threaded. The nave A is also provided with thin flanges 0 on the inner wall of chamber, connecting with bars h and converging toward a common center, as shown in Fig. 2, and projecting at a right angle from the inner wall-plate, as indicated by the dotted lines 0 in Fig. 1 and by the reverse shading 0 in Fig. 3; but such projection may be greater or less than indicated by the drawings. The purposes of these flanges 0 are to aiford greater strength to nave A and to give proper direction and position to spokes when inserted.

Flange-plate 1) (shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4) is screw-threaded on its outer edge and provided with key-seats Zcat central part. These key-seats or recesses are first used for inserting a tool within for the purpose of turning said plate firmly in position within rimn of nave A. The flange-plate b is also provided on its inner surface with slight annular ridges Z, true to a circle and designed to press within spokes wardly. A section 7' of sleeve 3 is cone-shaped,

substantially as shown in Fig. 1, to fill the annulus and cone-bearing c of nave A. journal-box d and sleeve s may be combined and constructed in one piece only if sleeve 8 shall be composed of suitable material for bearings. The sleeve .9 may be fitted with journal-box d atone or both ends, and said journal box or boxes may be fitted in sleeve .9 without screw-threading, but fluted instead, and the sleeve 5 correspondingly so fluted, and the j ournal-box still held in position with the sand-band and shoulder thereof, as in the construction hereinafter shown of sand-band e and journal-box d.

In Fig. 2 the shaded parts It denote the bars intervening in the outer rim of nave A to form the ports '5, the bars h beingso formed on their inner and outer edges and by their curved sides as to provide a larger port within the inner edge of bars than without, and also the chamber within the bars. The blank spaces '11 well represent the shape and position of spokes when inserted in nave A and expanded by wedging or keying at points indicated by the short dotted lines J to fill the enlarged parts and chamber within the bars h, thereby forming dovetails, as it were, on the spokes within the bars and most effectually securing spokes in nave A, after which the flange-plate bis turned in position within rim or, the sleeve .5- being next inserted. The

keying of flange-plate b on sleeves byinserting keys in seats is next in order, after The . ing 0, with the bars It so formed on their inner and outer edges and by their curved sides as to provide a larger port within the inner edgeof bars than without, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a vehicle-hub, the nave A, provided which follow with screw-collar g, which conceals and secures keys in place and also secures sleeve 8 in spoke-holder and gives to flange-plate 1) additional support.

The flange-plate b may be fitted to and within rim n of nave A without screw-threading as a cheaper method and yet a practical construction attained.

In Fig. 3 the nave A is drawn as on a line through bars h, intervening in outer rim to form ports 1', also through flanges 0, connecting with bars h, and in Fig. l as on a line through open ports or between the bars h. The journal-box d is provided with a beveled shoulder t, outwardly resting on end of sleeve 8, and the sand-band e is provided with a correspondingly-beveled shoulder on, inwardly resting on journal-box shoulder, for the purpose of securing and retaining journal-box in place and position, whether fluted or screw-' threaded. The journal-box d and sand-band 6 should be threaded in an opposite direction that is, the one to the right and the other to the left-and the sleeve 5 correspondingly so threaded,thereby the better securing each in place with the other.

What I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a vehicle-hub, the spoke-holder constructed in two pieces, the nave A and the flange-plate b,in which the nave A is formed with an open circularspace within the rim n to receive the flange-plate b, with the intervening bars h, connecting rim n with inner wall of chamber, provided with the cone-bearwhen inserted in nave A and also greater strength in the construction thereof, substantially as described.

4. In a vehicle-hub, the nave A, provided with the screw-threaded rim 'n,in combination with the flange plate I), correspondingly threaded on outer edge and provided with the key-seats 7c and the annular ridges Z, substantially as described.

5. In a vehicle-hub, sleeve .9 with journal-box d, either fluted-or screw-threaded and provided with an outthe combination of wardly-projecting shoulder t, in combination with sand-band e, provided with aninwardlyprojecting shoulder 1n, resting on journal-box shoulder, substantially as and for the purpose described.

6. In a vehicle-hub, the nave A, containing the rim n, the opening space within rim n, and the bars h, connecting rim n with the inner wall-plate provided with the cone-bearing c in the manner shown, in combination :with

sleeve 8, provided with a correspondingly cone-shaped section a", substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ALEXANDER I'IOUGH. Witnesses:

DAVID YOUNG, ROBERT KILLGORE. 

